Michael Bay's Transformers: Age Of Extinction has now become the highest grossing movie of all time in China after just 2 weeks on release, surpassing the $221 haul taken by James Cameron's Avatar. More after the jump..

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By Mark Cassidy - 7/8/2014

There's cash to be made in the Middle Kingdom -- something Hollywood has definitely copped onto. Marvel earned a few extra dollars at the Chinese box office when Iron Man 3 shot certain scenes specifically for that territory, and now Michael Bay has taken this to a whole new extreme by casting the likes of Li Bingbing and Han Geng in prominent roles, and actually moving the action in Transformers: Age Of Extinction to China in the final act. Audiences there have evidently lapped it up, as THR report that the flick become China's highest grossing film of all-time after being out for just two weeks. The fourth Transformers movie has earned $222.74 million, surpassing the $221 million record held by Avatar. Currently sitting on $575 million worldwide, it doesn't look as if Bay's latest beast will be slowing down anytime soon.

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Glad this movie is doing well so they can make more because with every iteration of Transformers, conventional thinking would dictate that they will be that much closer to making something that is actually very recognisable from the source material...[frick], who am I kidding, this is Hollywood. LOL

I too like to think the success of these films means that once they get to doing an inevitable reboot, they might actually make it recognizable, feature the likes of Cybertron, develop the characters etc. Actually be happy with a prequel series using the same character designs (about the only decent thing in the films) showing the Fall of Cybertron.

Heard the final scene maybe points in the direction of more space, but think most people have since learned that they don't deliver, so not anticipating much from the next one, or two.